Tokyo's Polysics have launched a stream of their new full length We Ate The Machine. The CD and digital version of the new record hits on September 30, 2008 via MySpace Records. We Ate The Machine was released in Japan this past April.

I can't get into these guys, but one of my favourite releases this year is by We Are the Physics, who I think do a much more interesting/listenable job of taking some of Devo's style and turning it into something of their own.

I saw them open for the Aggrolites and they absolutely killed it. They had a guy in the crowd just like them whose only purpose was running around blowing a whistle to the beat of every song. Then the keyboardist had pom poms. It was amazing.

This album is awesome, just like all their albums; but the English versions of the first two songs suck. It sounds like Hayashi is just reading the lyrics off a piece of paper for the first time. Go download the Japanese versions to hear them sung better.

Listening to a load of less obvious Devo stuff in the car this morning, the early 'Hardcore' stuff is superb, later tracks like 'Jimmy' are genius ;)

Well I kinda feel sorry for jimmy
Yeah but you don't know the whole story he wasn't a nice guy
Whaddya mean?
Let me tell ya
Jimmy's in a wheel chair and I don't care
He used to walk his dog
And then he'd beat him good
Like his pretty wife
And now they're up and gone
And jimmy's in a wheelchair and I don't care
He was the president
Of a company
He kept his workers poor
He'd lie and cheat and steal
Well when justice strikes
Well every once in a while
It makes a bullseye hit
Well every once in a while
He used to yell and scream
Until his son would cry
Then he'd run him down
Well he don't run no more
Jimmy's in a wheelchair and I don't care
He got big and fat
And he was ridin' high
Makin' lots of cash
Trashin' others' lives
Now jimmy's in a wheelchair and I don't care
Lord he had it comin'
Now he's cryin' in his beer
Lord have mercy on this man